Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 662: Flower farming meets the retail flower shop with Little Petal Farm
May 15, 2024

https://youtu.be/lup-FAhWj4s?si=BAyBvf0Cfe8iEp_M Going from flower farmer to full-service retail florist and juggling both is it possible? Hear from Tammy Osselaer, who started Little Petal Farm

Episode 661: Spring Tune-Up for Florists, Shops, and Studios with Althea Wiles of Rose of Sharon Floral Design Studio
May 08, 2024

https://youtu.be/NruZ1TOx0fo?si=NybN1qvv9X1LEC6x You love floral design, but running a business is so not your thing! Longtime Slow Flowers member Althea Wiles has been there, too. She knows how m

Episode 660: Flower Farming in Los Angeles: Meet a trio of growers behind an upcoming flower farm tour as they discuss the unique character of urban flower farming in Southern California
May 01, 2024

https://youtu.be/VzIieyJw-bU?si=B48N4DXiiHZkyx15 Meet three of the flower farmers behind the bountiful LA Flower Farm Tour, as eight woman-owned urban flower farms come together to open their gate

Episode 659: Designer Leslie Bennett, co-author of Garden Wonderland and founder of Pine House Edible Gardens and Black Sanctuary Gardens
April 24, 2024

https://youtu.be/WBxatSDZgjE?si=DELFNNCQoG5l4a34 Leslie Bennett believes that gardens are for all. In Garden Wonderland, this celebrated landscape designer treats us to an accessible garden-making

Episode 658: Meet floral marketing strategist Sahid Nahim, host of YouTube’s The Bloom Show
April 17, 2024

https://youtu.be/Ktb2fJ8-ty8?si=AzSIqzvwDl4XSGJ7 On Slowflowers.com there are several search categories to help visitors find flower farms, florists, suppliers and other floral businesses, and one

Episode 657: Meet Michelle Kenny, executive director the new Pacific Northwest Florists Association
April 10, 2024

https://youtu.be/_7u2Mp8pf5U?si=riSrYytQLDkc4SBe We believe in community here at the Slow Flowers Society and todays guest does too, as she has a mission to support florists and the floral Indust

Episode 656: Follow the Blooms with Host and Producer Katie Lila, and Bloom TV Network’s founder & CEO Monica Michelle
April 03, 2024

https://youtu.be/2xAkkExz5Qc?si=lLlWWY0VToCA2XeE Theres HGTV and theres the Food Network, but have you checked out the Bloom TV Network? Today, well meet Monica Michelle, creator of the floral-

Episode 655: A visit to Françoise Weeks’ studio and a peek into her new book, Wonder of the Woodlands
March 27, 2024

https://youtu.be/YvXP6tJQv78?si=0SBQevPS2wNTppGU Franoise Weeks brings home the charm of the wild woods with her creative botanical arrangements that are so much more than bouquets of blooms. Our

Episode 654: Native Flora for farmers and florists with Holly Lukasiewicz of District 2 Floral Studio; Deborah Majerus of Iron Butterfly Farm and Lodging; and Kate Watters of Wild Heart Farm
March 20, 2024

https://youtu.be/0oogFIrykmE?si=ANwBFpK7VjHMZggP More Slow Flowers members are exploring native plants as potential floral design elements both on their farms and in their studios. In fact, in o

Episode 653: Piedmont Wholesale Flowers – celebrating its 8th season and a new facility with flower farmer Stephanie Hall of Sassafras Fork Farm and market manager Julia Carpico
March 13, 2024

https://youtu.be/0k_5od_dD-4?si=Z-7qpZY3h6Ngv98P Stephanie Hall of Sassafras Fork Farm, Piedmont Wholesale Flowers, president ermitus (left) and Julia Carpico, Market Manager (right) Based in D